School Under Fire For Chief Keef Research Assignment, Parents Explode
That wasn’t the case at John Fiske Elementary School on the South Side, where a substitute filling in for a teacher on extended leave, asked sixth-grade students to research the controversial Chicago rapper Chief Keef. “My son is not exposed to this kind of music, and [the teacher] forced this on him”.
To make matters worse, the Chief Keef lesson plan was implemented at an elementary school and pegged questions in a music class quiz that nobody at the age should be committing to memory.
While the 20-year-old Keef may be popular with Chicago’s youth, parents may not widely consider him an appropriate role model for studying. However, since a portion of the lesson quizzed students on Keef’s criminal charges, the blog’s creator told ABC 7 Chicago it all was “ridiculous”.
Other lessons included biographies on Chris Brown, the singer who was found guilty in 2009 of assaulting his then girlfriend, the singer Rhianna.
“He said, ‘Mama, the girls are squeezing their cheeks together and twerking in class, ‘” Sanders said. “Because we’re not used to, as parents, seeing our children bring home rap artists and hip-hop artists and gang artists for school work assignments”.
“This inappropriate project was immediately suspended by the principal as soon as she learned about it”, wrote Emily Bittner, a CPS spokeswoman, in a statement.
Sanders released a YouTube video showing the test that her son was given on Chief Keef.
CPS declined to identify the substitute teacher. Parents say the material is inappropriate.
As you can see below, there’s no debating whether or not the rapper-who blew up in 2012 after Kanye West, along with Pusha T, Big Sean and Jadakiss, remixed his viral drill smash “I Don’t Like”-was the focus of the examination”.